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For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ. <a href="/esv/1_corinthians/10.htm">English Standard Version</a> and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. <a href="/bsb/1_corinthians/10.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. <a href="/blb/1_corinthians/10.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were drinking from the spiritual rock accompanying them, and the rock was Christ. <a href="/kjv/1_corinthians/10.htm">King James Bible</a> And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. <a href="/nkjv/1_corinthians/10.htm">New King James Version</a> and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. <a href="/nasb_/1_corinthians/10.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ. <a href="/nasb/1_corinthians/10.htm">NASB 1995</a> and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ. <a href="/nasb77/1_corinthians/10.htm">NASB 1977 </a> and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ. <a href="/lsb/1_corinthians/10.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them, and the rock was Christ. <a href="/amp/1_corinthians/10.htm">Amplified Bible</a> and all [of them] drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ. <a href="/csb/1_corinthians/10.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ. <a href="/hcsb/1_corinthians/10.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ. <a href="/asv/1_corinthians/10.htm">American Standard Version</a> and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ. <a href="/cev/1_corinthians/10.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> and drank the same spiritual drink, which flowed from the spiritual rock that followed them. That rock was Christ. <a href="/erv/1_corinthians/10.htm">English Revised Version</a> and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ. <a href="/gwt/1_corinthians/10.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> and all of them drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from the spiritual rock that went with them, and that rock was Christ. <a href="/gnt/1_corinthians/10.htm">Good News Translation</a> and drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from the spiritual rock that went with them; and that rock was Christ himself. <a href="/isv/1_corinthians/10.htm">International Standard Version</a> and drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from the spiritual rock that went with them. That rock was the Messiah. <a href="/msb/1_corinthians/10.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. <a href="/net/1_corinthians/10.htm">NET Bible</a> and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. <a href="/nheb/1_corinthians/10.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. <a href="/wbt/1_corinthians/10.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And all drank the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.) <a href="/wey/1_corinthians/10.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they long drank the water that flowed from the spiritual rock that went with them--and that rock was the Christ. <a href="/web/1_corinthians/10.htm">World English Bible</a> and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/1_corinthians/10.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking of a spiritual rock following them, and the rock was the Christ; <a href="/blb/1_corinthians/10.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were drinking from the spiritual rock accompanying them, and the rock was Christ. <a href="/ylt/1_corinthians/10.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> and all the same spiritual drink did drink, for they were drinking of a spiritual rock following them, and the rock was the Christ; <a href="/slt/1_corinthians/10.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And all drank the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual Rock following; and the Rock was Christ.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/1_corinthians/10.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And all drank the same spiritual drink; (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.) <a href="/cpdv/1_corinthians/10.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And they all drank of the same spiritual drink. And so, they all were drinking of the spiritual rock seeking to obtain them; and that rock was Christ. <a href="/nabre/1_corinthians/10.htm">New American Bible</a> and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was the Christ. <a href="/nrsvce/1_corinthians/10.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/1_corinthians/10.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And all drank the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/1_corinthians/10.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> And they all drank of the one drink of The Spirit, for they were drinking from The Rock of The Spirit, which was with them, but that Rock was The Messiah.<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/1_corinthians/10.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was the Christ. <a href="/godbey/1_corinthians/10.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> and all did drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. <a href="/haweis/1_corinthians/10.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual rock which followed them; but that rock was Christ. <a href="/mace/1_corinthians/10.htm">Mace New Testament</a> and all drank the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of what flowed from the spiritual rock: and that rock was Christ.) <a href="/wey/1_corinthians/10.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they long drank the water that flowed from the spiritual rock that went with them--and that rock was the Christ. <a href="/worrell/1_corinthians/10.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they were drinking of the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was the Christ. <a href="/worsley/1_corinthians/10.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and that rock was an emblem of Christ. <a href="/parallel/1_corinthians/10-4.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g-wZWoK_LZU?start=1957" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/1_corinthians/10.htm">Warnings from Israel's Past</a> …3They all ate the same spiritual food 4<a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">and</a> <a href="/greek/3956.htm" title="3956: pantes (Adj-NMP) -- All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole."></a> <a href="/greek/4095.htm" title="4095: epion (V-AIA-3P) -- To drink, imbibe. A prolonged form of pio, which poo occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses; to imbibe.">drank</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: to (Art-ANS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">the</a> <a href="/greek/846.htm" title="846: auto (PPro-AN3S) -- He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.">same</a> <a href="/greek/4152.htm" title="4152: pneumatikon (Adj-ANS) -- Spiritual. From pneuma; non-carnal, i.e. ethereal, or a spirit, or supernatural, regenerate, religious.">spiritual</a> <a href="/greek/4188.htm" title="4188: poma (N-ANS) -- Drink. From the alternate of pino; a beverage.">drink;</a> <a href="/greek/1063.htm" title="1063: gar (Conj) -- For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.">for</a> <a href="/greek/4095.htm" title="4095: epinon (V-IIA-3P) -- To drink, imbibe. A prolonged form of pio, which poo occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses; to imbibe.">they drank</a> <a href="/greek/1537.htm" title="1537: ek (Prep) -- From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.">from</a> <a href="/greek/4152.htm" title="4152: pneumatikēs (Adj-GFS) -- Spiritual. From pneuma; non-carnal, i.e. ethereal, or a spirit, or supernatural, regenerate, religious.">the spiritual</a> <a href="/greek/4073.htm" title="4073: petras (N-GFS) -- A rock, ledge, cliff, cave, stony ground. Feminine of the same as Petros; a rock.">rock</a> <a href="/greek/190.htm" title="190: akolouthousēs (V-PPA-GFS) -- To accompany, attend, follow. Properly, to be in the same way with, i.e. To accompany.">that accompanied them,</a> <a href="/greek/1161.htm" title="1161: de (Conj) -- A primary particle; but, and, etc.">and</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: hē (Art-NFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">that</a> <a href="/greek/4073.htm" title="4073: petra (N-NFS) -- A rock, ledge, cliff, cave, stony ground. Feminine of the same as Petros; a rock.">rock</a> <a href="/greek/1510.htm" title="1510: ēn (V-IIA-3S) -- I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.">was</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: ho (Art-NMS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/5547.htm" title="5547: Christos (N-NMS) -- Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.">Christ.</a> 5Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/exodus/17-6.htm">Exodus 17:6</a> Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. <a href="/numbers/20-8.htm">Numbers 20:8-11</a> “Take the staff and assemble the congregation. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will pour out its water. You will bring out water from the rock and provide drink for the congregation and their livestock.” / So Moses took the staff from the LORD’s presence, just as he had been commanded. / Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen now, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?” ... <a href="/john/4-10.htm">John 4:10-14</a> Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” / “Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water? / Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?” ... <a href="/john/7-37.htm">John 7:37-39</a> On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. / Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’” / He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified. <a href="/psalms/78-15.htm">Psalm 78:15-16</a> He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas. / He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers. <a href="/psalms/105-41.htm">Psalm 105:41</a> He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert. <a href="/isaiah/48-21.htm">Isaiah 48:21</a> They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow for them from the rock; He split the rock, and water gushed out. <a href="/deuteronomy/8-15.htm">Deuteronomy 8:15</a> He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint. <a href="/nehemiah/9-15.htm">Nehemiah 9:15</a> In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land that You had sworn to give them. <a href="/psalms/114-8.htm">Psalm 114:8</a> who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water! <a href="/isaiah/55-1.htm">Isaiah 55:1</a> “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost! <a href="/revelation/22-1.htm">Revelation 22:1-2</a> Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb / down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. <a href="/revelation/22-17.htm">Revelation 22:17</a> The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely. <a href="/matthew/16-18.htm">Matthew 16:18</a> And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. <a href="/ephesians/2-20.htm">Ephesians 2:20</a> built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.did.<a href="/exodus/17-6.htm">Exodus 17:6</a> Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.<a href="/numbers/20-11.htm">Numbers 20:11</a> And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.<a href="/psalms/78-15.htm">Psalm 78:15,20</a> He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths… followed them.<a href="/deuteronomy/9-21.htm">Deuteronomy 9:21</a> And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.that Rock.<a href="/1_corinthians/11-24.htm">1 Corinthians 11:24,25</a> And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me… <a href="/genesis/40-12.htm">Genesis 40:12</a> And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:<a href="/genesis/41-26.htm">Genesis 41:26</a> The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_corinthians/9-5.htm">Accompanied</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-21.htm">Christ</a> <a href="/acts/10-41.htm">Drank</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-7.htm">Drink</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-7.htm">Drinking</a> <a href="/john/19-34.htm">Flowed</a> <a href="/romans/9-31.htm">Followed</a> <a href="/romans/9-31.htm">Following</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-3.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/romans/9-33.htm">Rock</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-3.htm">Spiritual</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-3.htm">Supernatural</a> <a href="/acts/27-28.htm">Water</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/2_corinthians/12-12.htm">Accompanied</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-9.htm">Christ</a> <a href="/revelation/12-16.htm">Drank</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-7.htm">Drink</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-31.htm">Drinking</a> <a href="/revelation/14-20.htm">Flowed</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-2.htm">Followed</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-17.htm">Following</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-7.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/1_peter/2-8.htm">Rock</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/12-1.htm">Spiritual</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-3.htm">Supernatural</a> <a href="/ephesians/5-26.htm">Water</a><div class="vheading2">1 Corinthians 10</div>1. <a href="/1_corinthians/10-1.htm">The sacraments of the Jews are types of ours;</a> 7. <a href="/1_corinthians/10-7.htm">and their punishments,</a> 11. <a href="/1_corinthians/10-11.htm">examples for us.</a> 13. <a href="/1_corinthians/10-13.htm">We must flee from idolatry.</a> 21. <a href="/1_corinthians/10-21.htm">We must not make the Lord's table the table of demons;</a> 24. <a href="/1_corinthians/10-24.htm">and in all things we must have regard for our brothers.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/1_corinthians/10.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/1_corinthians/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/1_corinthians/10.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>and drank the same spiritual drink; This phrase refers to the Israelites during their wilderness journey, where they received miraculous provision from God. The "spiritual drink" signifies the water that God provided from the rock at Horeb (<a href="/exodus/17-6.htm">Exodus 17:6</a>) and later at Kadesh (<a href="/numbers/20-11.htm">Numbers 20:11</a>). This drink is termed "spiritual" because it was supernaturally provided and symbolized God's sustaining presence. The provision of water in the desert is a type of Christ, who offers living water (<a href="/john/4-10.htm">John 4:10-14</a>), signifying eternal life and spiritual sustenance.for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, The "spiritual rock" is a typological reference to Christ, who is seen as the source of spiritual sustenance. The rock "accompanied them" suggests God's continual presence and provision throughout the Israelites' journey. In Jewish tradition, there was a belief that a literal rock followed the Israelites, providing water. Paul uses this imagery to illustrate Christ's constant presence and provision for believers. This aligns with the understanding of Christ as the cornerstone (<a href="/ephesians/2-20.htm">Ephesians 2:20</a>) and the foundation of faith.and that rock was Christ. Paul explicitly identifies the rock as Christ, emphasizing the pre-existence and active involvement of Christ in the Old Testament. This typology highlights Christ as the source of life and sustenance, both physically and spiritually. It underscores the continuity of God's plan of salvation from the Old Testament to the New Testament. The identification of Christ as the rock also connects to other scriptural references where Christ is depicted as a rock or stone, such as in <a href="/1_peter/2-4.htm">1 Peter 2:4-8</a>, where He is described as the living stone, rejected by men but chosen by God.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/t/the_israelites.htm">The Israelites</a> The people of God who were delivered from slavery in Egypt and wandered in the wilderness for forty years. They experienced God's provision and guidance. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_wilderness.htm">The Wilderness</a> The desert area where the Israelites wandered after their exodus from Egypt. It was a place of testing and divine provision. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_spiritual_rock.htm">The Spiritual Rock</a> Symbolic of Christ, who provided spiritual sustenance to the Israelites. The rock is a typology of Christ's presence and provision. 4. <a href="/topical/c/christ.htm">Christ</a> The Messiah, who is identified as the spiritual rock that provided for the Israelites, emphasizing His eternal presence and provision. 5. <a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a> The leader of the Israelites who, by God's command, struck the rock to provide water for the people, symbolizing Christ's provision.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/c/christ_as_our_sustainer.htm">Christ as Our Sustainer</a> Just as the Israelites depended on the rock for physical sustenance, we depend on Christ for spiritual sustenance. He is our source of life and strength. <a href="/topical/t/the_presence_of_christ_in_our_journey.htm">The Presence of Christ in Our Journey</a> The rock that accompanied the Israelites symbolizes Christ's constant presence with us. We are never alone in our spiritual journey. <a href="/topical/t/typology_and_fulfillment.htm">Typology and Fulfillment</a> The Old Testament events serve as a foreshadowing of Christ's work. Understanding these connections deepens our appreciation of God's redemptive plan. <a href="/topical/s/spiritual_nourishment.htm">Spiritual Nourishment</a> Just as the Israelites needed water to survive, we need the living water that Christ offers. Regular engagement with Scripture and prayer is essential for our spiritual health. <a href="/topical/t/trust_in_god's_provision.htm">Trust in God's Provision</a> The Israelites' experience teaches us to trust in God's provision, even in difficult circumstances. He is faithful to meet our needs.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_1_corinthians_10.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 1 Corinthians 10</a> <a href="/q/what_is_the_gift_of_helps.htm">What is the Gift of Helps?</a> <a href="/q/can_striking_a_rock_yield_water_for_all.htm">Numbers 20:2–11 – How could striking a rock realistically produce enough water for an entire nation and their livestock? </a> <a href="/q/what's_the_rock_of_salvation's_meaning.htm">What is the significance of the Rock of Salvation?</a> <a href="/q/what_did_jesus_mean_by_'this_rock'.htm">What did Jesus mean by "Upon this rock"?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_corinthians/10.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(4) That spiritual Rock that followed them.--There was a Jewish tradition that the Rock--i.e., a fragment broken off from the rock smitten by Moses--followed the Israelites through their journey, and St. Paul, for the purpose of illustration, adopts that account instead of the statement in <a href="/numbers/20-11.htm" title="And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.">Numbers 20:11</a>. The emphatic repetition of the word "spiritual" before "drink" and "rock" reminds the reader that it is the spiritual and not the historic aspect of the fact which is present to St. Paul's mind. The traditional account of the Rock was a more complete illustration of the abiding presence of God, which was the point that the Apostle here desires to bring forward.And that Rock was Christ.--As Christ was "God manifest in the flesh" in the New Dispensation, so God manifest in the Rock (the source of sustaining life) was the Christ of the Old Dispensation. The Jews had become familiar with the thought of God as a Rock. (See <a href="/1_samuel/2-2.htm" title="There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside you: neither is there any rock like our God.">1Samuel 2:2</a>; <a href="/psalms/91-12.htm" title="They shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.">Psalm 91:12</a>; <a href="/isaiah/32-2.htm" title="And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.">Isaiah 32:2</a>.) Though the Jews may have recognised the Rock poetically as God, they knew not that it was, as a manifestation of God's presence, typical of the manifestation which was yet to be given in the Incarnation. Such seems to be the force of the statement and of the word "But" which emphatically introduces it. But though they thought it only a Rock, or applied the word poetically to Jehovah, that Rock was Christ.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_corinthians/10.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 4. - The same spiritual drink. The water from the smitten rock might (<a href="/exodus/17-6.htm">Exodus 17:6</a>; <a href="/numbers/20-11.htm">Numbers 20:11</a>) be called a "spiritual" drink, both as being a miraculous gift (comp. <a href="/galatians/4-29.htm">Galatians 4:29</a>, where Isaac is said to be "born after the spirit"), and as being a type of that "living water" which "springs up into everlasting life" (<a href="/john/4-14.htm">John 4:14</a>; <a href="/john/7-37.htm">John 7:37</a>), and of the blood of Christ in the Eucharist (<a href="/john/6-55.htm">John 6:55</a>). These "waters in the wilderness" and "rivers in the desert" were a natural symbol of the grace of God (<a href="/isaiah/43-23.htm">Isaiah 43:23</a>; <a href="/isaiah/55-1.htm">Isaiah 55:1</a>), especially as bestowed in the sacrament through material signs. They drank; literally, they were drinking, implying a continuous gift. Of that spiritual Rock that followed them; rather, literally, of a spiritual following Rock. This is explained (1) as a mere figure of speech, in which the natural rock which Moses smote is left out of sight altogether; and (2) as meaning that not the rock, but the water from the rock, followed after them in their wanderings (<a href="/deuteronomy/9-21.htm">Deuteronomy 9:21</a>). There can, however, be little or no doubt that St. Paul refers to the common Jewish Hagadah, that the actual material rock did follow the Israelites in their wanderings. The rabbis said that it was round, and rolled itself up like a swarm of bees, and that, when the tabernacle was pitched, this rock came and settled in its vestibule, and began to flow when the princes came to it and sang, "Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it" (<a href="/numbers/21-17.htm">Numbers 21:17</a>). It does not, of course, follow from this allusion that St. Paul, or even the rabbis, believed their Hagadah in other than a metaphorical sense. The Jewish Hagadoth - legends and illustrations and inferences of an imaginative Oriental people - are not to be taken au pied de la lettre. St. Paul obviates the laying of any stress on the mere legend by the qualifying word, "a spiritual Rock." And that Rock was Christ. The writings of Philo, and the Alexandrian school of thought in general, had familiarized all Jewish readers with language of this kind. They were accustomed to see types of God, or of the Word (Logos), in almost every incident of the deliverance from Egypt and the wanderings in the wilderness. Thus in Wisd. 10:15 and Wisdom 11:4 it is Wisdom - another form of the Logos - who leads and supports the Israelites. The frequent comparison, of God to a Rock in the Old Testament (<a href="/deuteronomy/32.htm">Deuteronomy 32</a>, passim; <a href="/1_samuel/2-2.htm">1 Samuel 2:2</a>; <a href="/psalms/91-12.htm">Psalm 91:12</a>, etc.) would render the symbolism more easy, especially as in <a href="/exodus/17-6.htm">Exodus 17:6</a> we find, "Behold, I [Jehovah] will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb." <a href="/commentaries/1_corinthians/10-4.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>and καὶ (kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. drank ἔπιον (epion) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_4095.htm">Strong's 4095: </a> To drink, imbibe. A prolonged form of pio, which poo occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses; to imbibe. the τὸ (to) Article - Accusative Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. same αὐτὸ (auto) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Neuter 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_846.htm">Strong's 846: </a> He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. spiritual πνευματικὸν (pneumatikon) Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_4152.htm">Strong's 4152: </a> Spiritual. From pneuma; non-carnal, i.e. ethereal, or a spirit, or supernatural, regenerate, religious. drink; πόμα (poma) Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_4188.htm">Strong's 4188: </a> Drink. From the alternate of pino; a beverage. for γὰρ (gar) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_1063.htm">Strong's 1063: </a> For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason. they drank ἔπινον (epinon) Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_4095.htm">Strong's 4095: </a> To drink, imbibe. A prolonged form of pio, which poo occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses; to imbibe. from ἐκ (ek) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1537.htm">Strong's 1537: </a> From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out. [the] spiritual πνευματικῆς (pneumatikēs) Adjective - Genitive Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_4152.htm">Strong's 4152: </a> Spiritual. From pneuma; non-carnal, i.e. ethereal, or a spirit, or supernatural, regenerate, religious. rock πέτρας (petras) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_4073.htm">Strong's 4073: </a> A rock, ledge, cliff, cave, stony ground. Feminine of the same as Petros; a rock. that accompanied them, ἀκολουθούσης (akolouthousēs) Verb - Present Participle Active - Genitive Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_190.htm">Strong's 190: </a> To accompany, attend, follow. Properly, to be in the same way with, i.e. To accompany. and δὲ (de) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_1161.htm">Strong's 1161: </a> A primary particle; but, and, etc. [that] ἡ (hē) Article - Nominative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. rock πέτρα (petra) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_4073.htm">Strong's 4073: </a> A rock, ledge, cliff, cave, stony ground. Feminine of the same as Petros; a rock. was ἦν (ēn) Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1510.htm">Strong's 1510: </a> I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist. Christ. Χριστός (Christos) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_5547.htm">Strong's 5547: </a> Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus. <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_corinthians/10-4.htm">1 Corinthians 10:4 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/1_corinthians/10-4.htm">1 Corinthians 10:4 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/1_corinthians/10-4.htm">1 Corinthians 10:4 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/1_corinthians/10-4.htm">1 Corinthians 10:4 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/1_corinthians/10-4.htm">1 Corinthians 10:4 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/1_corinthians/10-4.htm">1 Corinthians 10:4 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/1_corinthians/10-4.htm">1 Corinthians 10:4 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/1_corinthians/10-4.htm">1 Corinthians 10:4 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/1_corinthians/10-4.htm">1 Corinthians 10:4 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/1_corinthians/10-4.htm">1 Corinthians 10:4 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-4.htm">NT Letters: 1 Corinthians 10:4 And all drank the same spiritual drink (1 Cor. 1C iC 1Cor i cor icor) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Corinthians 10:3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Corinthians 10:3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Corinthians 10:5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Corinthians 10:5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>